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If your roleplaying gaming has mostly been in the D20 sphere, here are some interesting ways you might find RuneQuest is different.1. RuneQuest is part of Chaosium’s D100 Basic Roleplaying system. It is intuitive and easy to play: virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are dete … read more

Chaosium is at the Origins Game Fair this weekend (June 13-17), in Columbus OH. Team members Rick, Todd and James will be there, along with a full suite of current Chaosium products including the 2018 Free RPG Day release Scritch Scratch. Rick also has advance physical copies of& … read more

Through a huge reader poll, this month's Tabletop Gaming Magazine features a list of the "150 best board, card, roleplaying and miniatures games ever made". In the count-down of the "Greatest Games Ever Made"—covering every facet of tabletop gaming from Chess and Monopoly to Exploding Kitt … read more

Lynne Hardy interviews RPG trailblazer Kerie Campbell for Women in Tabletop Gaming MonthSerious ones first:1. What is your background? I’m pretty boring, actually. Didn’t finish college, no degrees. I became disabled in the early 1990s and haven’t worked since then. Quite a bit of the past c … read more

Our friends at A Sharp have announced that Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, the "spiritual successor" to the amazing and enduring King of Dragon Pass game, launches later this month.Six Ages will come to the iOS App Store on 28 June, with preorders starting 21 June. It will sell for US$ 9.99. … read more

Lynne Hardy interviews 13th Age Glorantha and Miskatonic Repository artist Mara Braun for Women in Tabletop Gaming MonthSerious ones first:1. What is your background?My background is in Fine Arts. This is very relevant to my illustrator work for Chaosium.2. How long have you been gaming? What attr … read more

Women in Tabletop Gaming Month: Lynne Hardy, assistant editor for Call of CthulhuSerious ones first:1. What is your background? I originally trained as a biomedical research scientist. My B.Sc was in Biochemistry, and I followed that up with a Ph.D in Human Molecular Genetics (both at Newca … read more

Here are four features that help make RuneQuest distinct among other roleplaying games:1. Mythic Adventure — RuneQuest began in Glorantha. Its influences are Bronze Age cultures where the relationship between mortals and the gods are much stronger. Rather than being myths, the deeds and actio … read more